Richardson Elite Patio Covers provides professional retractable & motorized screens in Richardson, TX for residential and commercial properties across the Telecom Corridor. Motorized screens are precision hardware. The housing, the side tracks and the bottom bar have to stay parallel within very little, or the fabric wanders in the channel and the motor stalls partway through closing. Nothing in that mechanism forgives a frame slowly changing shape, which is the situation on most of the older houses in this city. Precision hardware wants a precise frame, and that is where the cost lives.
On a house that is thirty or fifty years old, parallel is the hard part. We laser the opening before quoting. If a header has sagged or one column has settled, the correction happens in the substructure rather than in the track. Shimming a channel straight against a frame that is still moving buys one good season and then a service call every year after.
Where an opening is beyond correcting, the honest recommendation is a manual roll screen or a hinged panel, because those tolerate imperfection. On the freestanding structures we build, posts, header and tracks become a single assembly on our own drilled piers and move together if they move at all. That is why a drop screen goes in cleanly on a new pavilion and awkwardly on a 1975 patio.
Wiring deserves a mention up front. Ranch houses off Belt Line rarely have an exterior circuit near the back patio, outdoor GFCI protection is often absent, and the service panel is frequently at capacity or old enough to need discussing. We price the circuit into the original quote rather than discovering it on installation day and writing a change order. Outdoor circuits get GFCI protection and the panel gets checked first.
Fabric choice is worth ten minutes at the table. Solar mesh on the west opening cuts the glare that empties a patio here from four o'clock onward, while 18x14 elsewhere keeps airflow and the view. A 20x20 weave stops the smallest biting insects and costs you some breeze in exchange. Mixing weaves across one structure is normal and free to specify at order. Finer weave costs airflow, and that trade is the argument.
A drop screen does not turn a cover into a room. Open area below six feet eight inches still governs whether the city treats the structure as a patio cover, and screen keeps you on the right side of that line. Attached units go on the permit drawings alongside a roof framing plan that states member sizing, spacing, clear spans and species. Species belongs on that plan wherever wood is doing work.
With 15+ years of experience, our insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — screw-chase extruded aluminum framing, 18x14 fiberglass insect mesh, 20x20 no-see-um mesh, pet-resistant vinyl-coated polyester screen, drilled belled piers below the active clay zone, hot-dip galvanized post base standoffs — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Richardson and nearby communities including Plano, Garland, Sachse, Murphy.
What We Handle
Everything our retractable & motorized screens in Richardson covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of retractable & motorized screens work in Richardson, TX. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- retractable screened porch
- motorized screen
- retractable screen system
- roll down screen patio
- motorized patio screen
- retractable insect screen
- power screen enclosure
- drop screen patio
- remote control patio screen
- retractable screen cost
- motorized shade screen
- garage screen door
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Richardson services.
Materials, equipment and how we do retractable & motorized screens
The difference between retractable & motorized screens that lasts and retractable & motorized screens that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with screw-chase extruded aluminum framing, 18x14 fiberglass insect mesh, 20x20 no-see-um mesh, pet-resistant vinyl-coated polyester screen, spec them to the job instead of to the invoice, and write the material grades into the free estimate so you know exactly what you are buying.
Every Richardson job runs the same way: site walk and measurements, written scope and fixed price, protection of the surrounding area, then the work itself with a daily clean-up. 15+ years of patio cover work in the Telecom Corridor means we have already met whatever your property is going to throw at us — awkward access, older construction, an HOA with opinions.
Where we do retractable & motorized screens outside Richardson
Richardson Elite Patio Covers covers Richardson and the surrounding communities of the Telecom Corridor. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Retractable & Motorized Screens in Plano, TX — Collin County, incorporated in 1873, population 285,494 at the 2020 census
- Retractable & Motorized Screens in Garland, TX — Dallas County, incorporated in 1891, population 246,018 at the 2020 census
- Retractable & Motorized Screens in Sachse, TX — Collin and Dallas Counties, incorporated in 1956, population 27,103 at the 2020 census
- Retractable & Motorized Screens in Murphy, TX — Collin County, incorporated in 1958, population 21,013 at the 2020 census
- Retractable & Motorized Screens in Wylie, TX — Collin County, incorporated in 1887, population 57,526 at the 2020 census
- Retractable & Motorized Screens in Allen, TX — Collin County, incorporated in 1953, population 104,627 at the 2020 census
Start on the Richardson Elite Patio Covers homepage for a free estimate, or call (877) 719-4788 and describe the job.
Why Richardson Chooses Richardson Elite Patio Covers
- ✓Over 15 years building screen rooms and patio structures across north Dallas and Collin County
- ✓Drilled piers taken below the active zone of the clay, not shallow pads that heave
- ✓Hail-rated roof material specified as standard, because North Texas is the worst hail corridor in the country
- ✓We pull the Richardson or county permit and handle the HOA package where one applies
The standards behind retractable & motorized screens
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The retractable & motorized screens work we do in Richardson follows published industry standards: International Code Council writes the IRC provisions that govern attached covers and their footings, and FGIA sets the wind-load performance standards for glazed and framed products. If a contractor cannot tell you which standard a detail comes from, that is worth asking about before you sign.
Every retractable & motorized screens project in Richardson gets the same attention, whether it is a single room or a full commercial job. We show up on schedule, keep the site clean, and stand behind the work — the estimate is free and there is no pressure.
Ready to get started? Call (877) 719-4788 for a free retractable & motorized screens free estimate in Richardson, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.